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Hepatitis B virus quasispecies susceptibility to entecavir confirms the relationship between genotypic resistance and patient virologic response.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Jun 2008
Baldick Carl J, Eggers Betsy J, Fang Jie, Levine Steven M, Pokornowski Kevin A, Rose Ronald E, Yu Cheng-Fang, Tenney Daniel J, Colonno Richard J
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: The efficacy of anti-viral therapy for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) is lost upon the emergence of resistant virus. Using >500 patient HBV isolates from several entecavir clinical trials, we show that phenotypic susceptibility correlates with genotypic resistance and patient virologic responses. METHODS: The full-length HBV or reverse transcriptase gene was amplified from patient sera,...
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